In the May survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre implemented within the project “Our Society 2004”, we asked respondents if they trusted selected international institutions.
From the institutions offered, the United Nations and the European Union were the most trustworthy (both trusted by 64 % of citizens). The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) registered the lowest share of trusting respondents, however more than a half of citizens do not know this institution, or they cannot give their opinions on it.
Moreover, the survey was to establish trust towards some selected politicians of regional, European or international importance. The survey results show that trust prevails over mistrust in the case of V. Klaus, T. Blair, J. Chirac, M. Dzurinda and A. Kwasniewski. For other monitored personalities in international politics included in the survey, there is prevailing mistrust among the Czech public, most significant being for the Presidents of the USA and Russia George Bush and Vladimir Putin.
The last question focused on to which degree the Czech public supported entry of the ten new member states to the European Union. The collected results show that for all acceding countries the support of their entry to the EU significantly prevails. The share of respondents, who do not support entry, ranges in all cases around the 10% mark.
